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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

Summer at the Medici Fountain, by Sergiu Ciochină, oil on canvas, 2026 #art #painting

A canal flanked by flowers in white marble vases, topiary shrubs and trees; a arching white structure at the end of the tunnel with sculptures and stairs leading up from the water; dappled light and green, white, and purple reflections

aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 13/07/2026

My pareidolia is broken. see if you can do better: A bouquet for Albert Einstein, by Victor Molev, oil on canvas, 2022 #art #painting

A colourful bouquet of stylised flowers that are supposed to add up to Einstein's portrait. I've figured out where the eyes and nose are, but still can't make out a face. Is it even there?

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026

Anyway, made an emotional support clafoutis. Recipe in the alt. Go for it while cherries are in season 🍒

* enough pitted cherries to completely cover the bottom of your cake tin
* 50 g butter
* 3 large eggs
* 100 g honey
* 150 g flour
* 250 ml milk
* vanilla

✤ Melt the butter and let cool

✤ Beat the eggs with a pinch of salt and the honey

✤ Add the flour, then the milk, butter, and vanilla

✤ Pour over the cherries and bake at 160 °C or thereabouts until the top is golden (mine was ready in about 25 min)

Enjoy 😊

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026

Lol, I thought somebody named their kid Eugenics Francis

A Bluesky post by Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social‬

"New episode of Youre Dead To Me now on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds

Its about the father of Eugenics Francis Galton, with our guests Subhadra Das (former curator of the Galton collection) and comedian Desiree Burch"

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

Underwater Pink, by Alexandra Djokic, acrylic on canvas, 2026 #art #painting

A very colourful painting of a woman swimming underwater

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026

Outside the window of sleep, by Joanna Szumska, oil on canvas, 2025 #art #painting

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026

Moonlight Over Quiet Street, by Yerkezhan Kamentayeva, oil on canvas, 2019 #art #painting

A night scene in what looks like an old corner of a modern city. A cat is sitting by a puddle in the cracked pavement; other than that, the street is deserted. The palette is blue and green, with amber accents where lamps are glowing and a white full moon above

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026

Veronese Moment, by Mandy Racine, acrylic on canvas, 2024 #art #painting

A colourful abstract painting that reads initially as a Renaissance-era figurative one. Inspired by the Rape of Europa, a 1578 painting by Paolo Veronese

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026

Awakenings, by Laura Muolo, oil on canvas, 2026 #art #painting

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026

Four centuries apart, and look at that. He was later a supporter of Marie de' Medici*, who had brought forks to the French court from Florence when she'd married Henry IV**, from where they, the forks, spread elsewhere. * whose husband he helped assassinate * the 'Paris is well worth a mass' king

Jean-Louis de Nogaret de la Valette, duc d'Epernon, by an anonymous French artist. Oil on wood, 1593

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026

Audrey in Turquoise, by Alicia Fordyce, watercolour on paper, 2026 She was, btw, a descendant of Nogaret d'Epernon, one of the Mignons of Henry III, the last Valois king, whose fictional version is a character in Dumas's La Dame de Monsoreau #art #painting

A portrait of Audrey Hepburn in acquatic shades of blue

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 29/06/2026

She has used this palette in a number of paintings, and it is very soothing indeed

An Afternoon Tea II, by Elena Wuest, oil on canvas, 2026

A pastel-hued painting of a dark-skinned man in a white robe pouring himself a cup of tea from a rose-gold teapot

#art #painting

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 29/06/2026

Ritual of Light, by Elena Wuest, oil on canvas, 2026 #art #painting

A pastel-hued painting of a young woman in a white summer dress with her head bent down, brushing her long blond hair in dappled light

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026

Sargent painted his patrons. To them, the people in the paintings were not strangers, and for today's buyers the point is that it's Sargent. Although William Oxer does wingless pictures too, so maybe you're right 😊

The First Fruits, by William Oxer, oil on canvas, 2026

An outdoor summer scene, a woman is sitting on a wooden crate or maybe a bench by some trees with a pile of books and two plates of some vaguely depicted things

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026

Everybody who loves hot weather is out enjoying hot weather, everybody who hates hot weather is online, being mad at everything. There's some profound observation in here, probably. Anyway, have a picture. Sigh Of An Angel, by William Oxer, oil on canvas, 2026 #art #painting

A young woman with fluffy wings, in a vaguely Victorian white dress, sitting by a window, looking at something down in the street

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 22/06/2026

Paradise, by Yooshin Kim, oil on canvas, 2023 #art #painting

A seascape with an empty small boat, its sail down, in a light blue / green / white palette

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 21/06/2026

On Midsummer night some years ago, I found myself alone by the water. Pondering the fact that that particular light had travelled all the way from the Sun to the Moon, bounced off, travelled to Earth, bounced off the water and formed a path at the end of which was me. The other pic is Edvard Munch.

To the left, a photo taken on the seashore on a summer solstice night. The Moon is hanging low above the water, its light forming a path stretching towards the viewer.

To the right is a very similar-looking painting: Summer Night by the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1902-03, oil on canvas

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026

Why does your website keep trying to tell me in which language to write a post? What space mind thought people needed to be told in what language they're chatting?

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026

Underwater swimming in sea, Trayko Popov, acrylic on canvas, 2024 #art #painting

A very colourful stylised painting of a pair of female legs underwater. Joyous!

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026

Satyr, by Arbidāne, oil on canvas, 2025 #art #painting

A masterfully painted nocturnal scene in chiaroscuro, with major Caravaggio vibes, of a muscular young man with a wreath on his head, a ruffled white shirt off his shoulder, a pearl earring, and a glass of wine in his hand

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026

The Fortune-teller, by Claudio Bravo, oil on canvas, 1981 #art #painting

A young woman in a white tunic and yellow turban and scarf is standing behind a table covered with a carpet, with a bowl of oranges on top. Across the table from her, sitting with his back to the viewer, is a man in a greenish coat with a tapered hood.

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aurealis @aurealis.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026

Estudio de agua dulce III, «El Lago» series, by Xristo Rodriguez, watercolour and coloured pencils on 100% cotton Arches paper #art #drawing #painting